We like the Willamette Week Give Guide. Lots of the food & gardening-related organizations we work with, refer to, and greatly appreciate are represented in this year's guide, and we like to make sure they're supported by the community--ourselves included! Here's a shortlist of food and garden-related non-profits in the Guide, organized by the category

It starts with organic land care, sustainable construction, or growing your own food. But an amazing transformation happens over time, as these activities intertwine strands of you with strands of place. Over time person and place are braided together, you co-evolve, and that nebulous sense of something missing gets smaller and smaller until finally: you are home, and home is you.